I bought my tail!

Okay, so as many of you know I have been planning for a while to buy a mermaid tail. Due to resources, knowledge and some other random things I didn't think I would be able to order my tail till December, making it a giant Christmas gift that people could chip in towards. After doing more research I found Fish Butts (http://www.fish-butts.com/).  The maker is Stephanie and she has made many tails and does great work. I saved up my money from this summer and as of today my order was accepted for her to start making my tail. Beyond stoked as this is a dream come true.  The tail takes about 10 weeks to do so it should be here by mid december I think! Also, I decided on my mermaid name. I am Mermaid Harmony. I looked through hundreds of names and ideas, but I heard this and was like yep, that's my name.  I have a page on facebook, so if you would like to add me on facebook go for it! I have the design of my tail up on that page as well.  It's all coming together!

I also was asked to start doing a DIY Mer-craft for the mermaid magazine Tail Flip.  It is a great magazine and opens your eyes to new and different things in the mer-community.  I highly suggest you check it out, quite amazing. I think my first project will be a shipwrecked mirror. Super stoked to start working on it.
http://issuu.com/t_obrecht/docs/tail_flip_issue_1
http://issuu.com/t_obrecht/docs/tail_flip_issue_2

Mermaid Kariel is the model.

Other great news/slightly nerve wracking. Mermaid Kariel has a new opening for a weekly mermaid position.  She would provide the costume and I would be a mermaid. She is one of the top three mermaids in the world. She is amazing and works here in Honolulu, I have to remind myself not to compare and that everyone has their own talents. Sometimes that's hard when I look at all she's done, but she's been doing this for a long time, and I just got started, so I just need to keep doing what I love and believe that I am tidally fintastic. :-)  Hopefully I get the job, because to learn from her, would be a dream come true.

Work is going great, I just love the salvation army, and I work with amazing people. You know how sometimes you have a job and the people you work with drag you down? I don't have that at the Salvation Army, I enjoy working with everyone. Super happy. They also have a pool and talked about once I get my tail doing birthday parties there!!

Jeremy is doing great, he loves his job, and we have made quite a few friends here in Hawaii. He has the day off of work today, so we're going to go to the beach and then tonight we start our Scuba Diving Certification! Yay!

PS. My best friend Dawn and I are dying our hair this week, so stoked. She's going pink and blue streaks, I'm dying mine Red with blue streaks.

More updates about Hawaii soon, we don't have internet at our house, so it's been a little strange, but I have lots of DIY projects to post soon. PS...want a sneak peek at what I'm building this week?....

So excited.

Love and bubbles,
Mermaid Harmony